ROB FORD TTC

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford unveiled his transit plan Wednesday, calling for 32 kilometres of new subway lines to be built at a cost of $9 billion for the first phase. Highlights of his plan include: - Sub...

TORONTO - Ontario will pay $1.4 billion to extend Toronto's subway to suburban Scarborough, but the city will have to settle for a shorter route, Transportation Minister Glen Murray announced Wednesda...

TORONTO - Toronto should count on the federal and Ontario governments to help fund a multi-billion-dollar subway extension in the city's east end, Mayor Rob Ford said Wednesday.Ford, who has long push...

This post originally appeared on Shireen Jeejeebhoy's political blog at talk talk talk. Suddenly, the picture changes. For years, we're going to get an LRT (light rail transit) to replace the dinky to...

TORONTO - Toronto taxpayers would see a small tax hike to fund a subway extension in the city's east end, but "the deal's dead" if the province and the federal governments don't pony up their share, T...

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford didn't get his $50 million, but Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne may have given him the next election instead. Politics is a game. The ones who know how to play it rise to the top and usually don't underestimate their opponent.

Toronto police say existing "tension" between rival high-school football teams was a factor in an attending officer's decision to get a TTC bus to pick up the team coached by Mayor Rob Ford. The inci...

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says he has "nothing to do" with the fact that two TTC buses stranded their passengers during rush hour last week in order to pick up the high school football team he coaches....

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford suggests that the costs of the city's pressing transit needs may lie with the higher levels of government because "they have many more dollars than we do." In an interview Wedn...

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has responded to a councillor's criticism that he's a "part-time" mayor by saying he "works harder than any person" at city hall. Coun. Adam Vaughan, one of Ford's most frequen...

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford drove past the open doors of a streetcar, resulting in an exchange with the TTC operator, the head of the transit union alleges. Bob Kinnear, who leads the Amalgamated Transit...

Toronto city council is being advised — by the expert panel it appointed — that light rail, not subways, are the way to go on Sheppard Avenue. The report released Friday has already been dismissed by...

Gary Webster, Chief General Manager of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), was fired yesterday without cause. While the TTC is entitled to fire Webster, he will be entitled to financial compensation. In these circumstances, Webster's conduct falls well short of establishing just cause for his dismissal.

As a pilot project, why not let private enterprise build and operate some or all of Toronto's TTC new lines? Regulated competition could be introduced in order to keep prices down for consumers while the province would save the money. Fares could be lightly taxed in order to generate revenue for the province.